Asset value

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accounting

Asset value is an important component of a company’s total value, and it can be computed in a number of ways. One approach determines
asset value by calculating what those assets are worth to their owners. According to this measurement principle, the economic value of an asset is the maximum price that the company would be willing to pay for it. This amount depends on what the company expects...

depreciation

in accounting, the allocation of the cost of an asset over its economic life. Depreciation covers deterioration from use, age, and exposure to the elements. It also includes obsolescence—i.e., loss of usefulness arising from the availability of newer and more efficient types of goods serving the same purpose. It does not cover losses from sudden and unexpected destruction resulting from...

work of

Fama

...with Lars P. Hansen and Robert J. Shiller, was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Economics for his contributions to the development of the efficient-market hypothesis and the empirical analysis of asset prices. Fama showed that it is very difficult to predict asset-price movements in the short run, because markets incorporate any new price-relevant information very quickly. This finding came...

Shiller

...Eugene F. Fama and Lars Peter Hansen, was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Economics. Shiller, Fama, and Hansen were recognized for their independent but complementary research on the variability of asset prices and on the underlying rationality (or irrationality) of financial markets. Shiller in particular was honoured for work in which he showed that variations in the prices of stocks and...

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